Category: Science

As Valentine’s Day approaches, we take a look at monogamy and its alternatives among animals — including humans.

Elephants use their trunks much like a human uses their hands: to pick up food and manipulate objects. A new study finds that tiny, specialized

Solve the crossword from our March 2026 issue, in which we work on our code-switching.

Planting trees on 6.4 million hectares of northern taiga forest could remove 3.9 gigatons of CO2 by 2100 — five times Canada’s annual emissions.

Iconic transition species between dinosaurs and birds may have had weird ‘teeth’ on roof of its mouth and a highly mobile tongue, study reveals

Decades of overfishing and habitat degradation led to huge declines in freshwater biodiversity in China’s longest river, but there are signs of recovery after a

Four researchers dive into the health risks associated with climate change, and why the recent decision by the Trump administration to rescind key environmental policies

Proof of concept uses passive components to redirect heat across a chip, allowing temperature patterns to be used for data processing.

A record-breaking gravitational wave signal let scientists “listen” to a distant black hole merger and put Einstein’s gravity to its toughest test yet.

New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution’s catastrophe response speed.

In Cape Verde, conservation has boosted the sea turtle population 100-fold — but the male-female balance is way off.

N one of the leading interpretations of quantum theory are very convincing. They ask us to believe, for example, that the world we experience is

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts

The four are set to dock with the space station on Saturday, returning the orbital lab to its full complement of seven. NASA’s last mission